Accused rapist Lamar Field was arrested around midnight at a homeless shelter in
Brooklyn, officials told The Jersey Journal today. He is charged with breaking into two homes in Jersey City and attacking two women.

A fugitive wanted in two brutal Jersey City rapes has been captured at a Brooklyn homeless shelter, where he was found hiding in a closet, officials told The Jersey Journal this morning.

Lamar Fields, 40, of Jersey City, was arrested around midnight last night by investigators from law enforcement agencies working on both sides of the Hudson River, officials said.

"The allegations portray a very dangerous predator," Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said.

"He clearly terrorized his victims and threatened to kill them."

Fields, who allegedly raped one woman at knife-point and the second while wielding a fork, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals New York/New Jersey Fugitive Task Force, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's Special Victims Unit, and officers of the Jersey City and New York City police departments, DeFazio said.

"Since the last incident, he had been moving around to different locations in New York City," DeFazio said. "We have reason to believe he had been in the Bronx, Manhattan and then finally Brooklyn. He apparently was trying to make himself scarce. He stayed on the move."

Investigators got information that led to surveillance at and around the Brooklyn shelter, DeFazio said, adding that once inside last night, police found that Fields wasn't in his room and tracked him to a closet in another area of the shelter.

He was arrested as a fugitive from justice -- wanted in Hudson County on a probation violation charge as well as the new charges, including aggravated sexual assault, armed robbery, burglary and weapons offenses -- the prosecutor said.

DeFazio said the victims of both early morning attacks did not know Fields, whose last known address was on Warner Avenue in 2007.

The first attack was on Sept. 3, when police say Fields entered a Kennedy Boulevard home through a window armed with a knife and sexually assaulted a woman, DeFazio said.

On Friday, Fields entered a Bramhall Avenue home through a back door while armed with a fork and sexually assaulted the second woman, DeFazio said.

Witness accounts and forensic evidence collected at the crime scenes led to the positive identification of Fields following the most recent attack, DeFazio said.

Fields was on probation at the time of his arrest, after having been sentenced in January 2008 for a burglary. In November a warrant was issued for his arrest after he missed a probation hearing.

DeFazio said Fields is believed to be homeless.

Fields will now appear in court in New York where he will decide if he will waive extradition or fight being sent back to New Jersey to face the charges.